“The perfection of wisdom, and the end of true philosophy is to proportion our wants to our possessions, our ambitions to our capacities, we will then be a happy and a virtuous people.”
Mark Twain
“He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues it possesses”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Seek Virtue, and, of that possessed, To Providence, resign the rest.”
Benjamin Franklin
“The search for truth is more precious than its possession.”
Albert Einstein
“Possessions are usually diminished by possession.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“Grant that I may become beautiful in my soul within, and that all my external possessions may be in harmony with my inner self. May I consider the wise to be rich, and may I have such riches as only a person of self-restraint can bear or endure.”
Plato
“Of all our possessions, wisdom alone is immortal.”
Isocrates
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